Gopi Shankar, an intersex individual, is publicly vying for a seat in the legislative assembly of a conservative region…
With a “direct cinema” approach, this film follows Peipei, a young female artist who does not conform to the institutio…
The appearance of Leo "Bud" Welch on the American blues scenario at his 81 years of age took the fans of the genre by s…
In northern Uganda, Patricia dedicates her life to helping women to give birth in her small village. This beautiful pho…
Alternating beautiful animations with the intimacy of customary moments, this film is a journey into the creative world…
When the summer is ending, three young people from the calm and languid south of Italy spend the days before an imminen…
In just a few minutes, this short documentary shows us in a cold and punctual way how social violence in Chicago is ram…
A group of homeless people embarks on the Adventure of building an ocean-going yacht to sail on a trip around the world.
Discover the life and work of Walter Pfeiffer, a Swiss photographer who at his 70 years of age is still at the forefron…
In an industrial community of New York, immigrant small business owners band together to fight a development plant that…
Filmed in a grainy black and white, this short film makes a portrait of Jurgen Blin, a retired German boxer who fought …
In this documentary made only with footage filmed by activist filmmakers with hidden cameras in West Sahara, we witness…
Filmmaker Caio Baú makes an intimate portrait of his sister Luiza, a special young girl who navigates her life between …
Five years after the Egyptian revolution that overthrew the Mubarak regime, four young Egyptians look back on that even…
Through a rich photographic, videographic and epistolary legacy, the director Ana Galizia makes a portrait of an uncle …
The people in the Estonian village of Pähkla have grown old since Uudu last saw them. Now he visits them once more – as…
In the everyday of four small homes, this documentary traces imprints of the larger world as four families of Filipino …
In Mexico's northern semi-desert, a quest unfolds to find the last voices of cardenche, a fading song of love, regret, …
Premiered at the prestigious IDFA, this documentary follows the Swedish rapper Silvana over several years through her w…
A curious introspective look at the history of the pig, which, in the hands of director Jan Vromman, is the story of th…
Rejected by society, Dario and Maury decide to move to a gay nudist beach in Roma. Full of brushstrokes of pop, psyched…
With a provocative title, this short film essay delves into the image that documents a rally of the National Democratic…
This documentary follows four outcasts in Montreal at night: Kye, Tobie, Paul, Kim. The four support each other and dru…
After spending more than twenty years in prison during the Soviet Union, a 71-year-old grandfather dedicates himself to…
This documentary follows Hedil and Naam, two Yazidi women who try to give their families a decent life in a refugee cam…
This documentary follows two young men in Mali who dream of becoming professional soccer players to be able to go to Eu…
Stefan Theiler has an interesting theory. He believes that any individual or sociological problem of the human being ca…
The 1973 story of a Mexican captain's impulsive decision to enter the first regatta to circumnavigate the globe.
This documentary shows the life of an aspiring ballerino trades in his toe shoes for the barefoot freedom of street dan…
In Old Havana's Roma building, Fernando and Teresa's stale relationship faces an unexpected challenge as Teresa's inexp…
This Documentary is a contemplative exploration of the "Camino de Santiago," focusing on the "albergue" - a hostel that…
Mirko Ilic is an outstanding comics artist based in New York City. In 2015, 38 pieces of his artwork were included in t…
Every year in Spain, some 16,000 Fiestas are organized, during which animals are used. Honoring the Holy Virgin and the…
Former Yugoslav territories, 1980s - 1990s. Time of abrupt political changes and war. Behind all this there was a sound…
Eastern Ukraine. After all the villagers of Pesky were evacuated due to the armed conflict between pro-Russian rebels a…
Grandma lives alone and hasn't left the bed for days. The only constant observer of her everyday life is the camera.
What is it like to return to the place where you were born 30 years after leaving? Filmmaker Régis Sauder returns to th…
This documentary premiered at Locarno follows a series of female characters from Naples, all linked in some way to the …
Faced with the government's plan to build the Great-Western Airport in the Nantes area, France, opponents of the projec…
In only six minutes, a little boy portrays his domestic universe. A younger brother, his grandparents, his most technol…
Boxer by day, nightclub watchman by night, Christ prepares for his next fight in the ring while in the streets of Libre…
In the midst of a city that never stops building buildings, a man leaves his country life behind and decides to run in …
Hundreds of people migrate every year to a very special place in Brasilia in search of a spiritual change in their live…
When a conversation begins in the basement of the house of a man isolated from society, his darkest secrets come to lig…
After becoming pregnant, a filmmaker confronts a ghost from the past: having another abortion. Suddenly, her mother and…
Through archival footage of the television show her mother hosted in post-Soviet Bulgaria, filmmaker Elitza Gueorguieva…
Mixing animations, old home videos and film footage of the present, filmmaker Steffan Strandberg recalls the most impor…
To dig into her family tree, a Kenyan woman in exile embarks on a journey to three countries to construct the figure of…
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